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	Francisco A. T. B N. Monteiro

Service

Academic Administration Positions

Deputy Director of the research unit IT-IUL, and member-elected of its scientific commission (Sep. 2017 - Sep. 2020)

Coordinator of the 2nd year of the Telecommunications and Computer Engineering Programme (Feb. 2014 - June 2019)

Member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD Program in Information Science and Technology (Mar. 2012 - February 2016)

Department Coordinator for the Mobility Programmes (Erasmus and others) for students and staff (Nov. 2012 - Jan. 2015)

Department co-liaison officer with the IUL Library in the areas of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Jan. 2010 - Jan 2017)

Journal Editing

EURASIPJournal on Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Lead Guest Editor, special issue on Network Coding, Springer, 2015. [Call for papers]

Conference Organisation Positions

Liasion Co-Chair of SBrT 2020 - 38º Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações e Processamento de Sinais, 22-25 November 2020, Florianópolis, Brazil.

General Co-Chair of ISWCS 2019 - The 16^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 27-30 August 2019, Oulu, Finland.

Organiser of the Workshop of the Quantum Internet Alliance Consortium, 13-14 May 2019, Lisbon, Portugal (93 participants from around Europe) [more photos and programme].

General Chair of ISWCS 2018 - The 15^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Lisbon, 28-31 August 2018, Lisbon Portugal (205 participants from all the world; photos in the symposium's page).

Organiser of the “Workshop on Machine Learning and Low Cost Hardware with MATLAB”, “MATLAB Academic Tour 2017 – Portugal”, Iscte-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2017.

Tutorial Chair of the International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Lisbon, May 2014.

Conference Special Sessions Organisation

2016 SPAWC – 17^th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Special Session on “Physical Layer Security for 5G”, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2016
(co-organised with Dr. Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and with Prof. H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA)

2015 SPAWC – 16^th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Special Session on "Recent Advances in Signal Processing for Inband Full-Duplex Radio", Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015
(co-organised with Prof. Mikko Valkama, Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

2014 EUSIPCO – European Signal Processing Conference, Special Session on Physical Layer Network Coding, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014.
(co-organised with Dr. Ioannis Krikidis, University of Cyprus)

2014 EUSIPCO – European Signal Processing Conference, Special Session on Signal processing for Massive MIMO and Large Antenna Array I, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014.
(co-organised with Prof. Rodrigo de Lamare, University of York, UK, and PUC-Rio, Brazil)

2014 EUSIPCO – European Signal Processing Conference, Special Session on Signal processing for Massive MIMO and Large Antenna Array II, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014.
(co-organised with Prof. Rodrigo de Lamare, University of York, UK, and PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Conference Technical Programme Committees (TPC)

ISWCS 2024 – The 19^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2024.

MELECON 2024 - The 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Porto, Portugal, June 2024.

GLOBECOM 2023 – IEEE Global Communications Conference (Quantum Communications track), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023

GLOBECOM 2022 – IEEE Global Communications Conference (Quantum Communications track), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022

QCE 2022 – IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (Quantum Networking and Communication track), Broomfield, Colorado, USA, Sep. 2022.

IWCMC 2022 - Inter. Wireless Comm. & Mobile Computing Conf. (Communication and Signal Processing Symposium) – Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2022.

ICC 2022 – IEEE International Conference on Communications (two tracks: 1) Full-duplex Communications track, and 2) Quantum Communications and Computing track), Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.

ISWCS 2021 – The 17^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Berlin, Germany, Sep. 2021.

EuCNC 2021 – 30^th European Conference on Networks and Communications | 6G Summit, Porto, Portugal, June 2021

IWCMC 2021 – 17^th Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (Communication and Signal Processing Symposium), Harbin, China, June 2021

PIMRC 2020 – The 31^st International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, London, UK, Sep. 2020.

SigTelCom – The 4^th International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing, HaNoi, Vietnam, Aug. 2020

EuCNC 2020 – 29^th European Conference on Networks and Communications, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2020.

IWCMC 2020 – 16^th Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (Communication and Signal Processing Symposium), Limassol, Cyprus, June 2020.

6G Wireless Summit, Levi, Lapland, Finland, Mar. 2020

ISWCS 2019 – The 16^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Oulu, Finland, Aug. 2019.

IWCMC 2019 – 15^th Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (Communication and Signal Processing Symposium), Tangier, Morocco, June 2019.

WCNC 2019 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, Apr. 2019

SigTelCom – The 3^rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing, HaNoi, Vietnam, Mar. 2019

PIMRC 2017 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio, Montréal, QC, Canada, Oct. 2017

ISCC 2017 – The 22^nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 2017

ICC 2017 – IEEE Inter. Communications Conference (Signal Processing for Communications Workshop), Paris, France, May 2017

ICC 2016 – IEEE Inter. Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016

PIMRC 2015 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio, [TPC] Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2015

IWCMC 2015 – Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (Communication and Signal Processing Symposium), Dubrovnik, Croatia, Aug. 2015

SNOW 2015 – The Sixth Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless, Geilo, Norway, Mar. 2015

ICC 2015 – IEEE Inter. Communications Conference, London, UK, June 2015

ISSPIT 2014 – IEEE Inter. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Noida, India, Dec. 2014

PIMRC 2014 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2014

2014 Global Wireless Summit, Aalborg, Denmark, May 2014

ISSPIT 2013 – IEEE Inter. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Athens, Greece, Dec. 2013

PIMRC 2013 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio 2013, London, UK, Sep. 2013

Future Network & Mobile Summit, Lisbon, July 2013

Conference session chairing

(Dates of when the conferences take place)

16^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication System (ISWCS), Session TS10: "Massive MIMO", Oulu, Finland, Aug. 2019,

16^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication System (ISWCS), Session TS02: "Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access", Oulu, Finland, Aug. 2019.

17^th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Special Session on "Physical Layer Security for 5G", Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2016.

3^rd IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Session MbMI-L: "Massive MIMO I", Orlando, Florida, USA, Dec. 2015.

16^th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Special Session on Full-duplex Radio, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015 (co-chaired with Prof. Mikko Valkama, Tampere University of Technology, Finland).

4^th Inter. Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications, Session "Development of Encoding and Decoding Schemes, Practical Aspects of Network Coding", Palmela, Portugal, Sep. 2014.

2014 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Special Session on Physical Layer Network Coding, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014.

2014 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Special Session on Signal processing for Massive MIMO and Large Antenna Array I, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014. (co-chaired with Prof. Rodrigo de Lamare, University of York, UK, and PUC-Rio, Brazil)

2014 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Special Session on Signal processing for Massive MIMO and Large Antenna Array II, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014. (co-chaired with Prof. Rodrigo de Lamare, University of York, UK, and PUC-Rio, Brazil)

2014 International Conference on Communications (ICT), "Session 12: Mobility", Lisbon, May 2014.

Journal Reviews

(Dates at the end are in respect to the rounds of reviews of one particular paper)

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Aug. 2023, March 2024)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Feb. 2024)
IEEE IEEE Access (Jan. 2024)
IEEE Transactions on Networking (March 2023, July 2023, Nov. 2023)
IEEE Access (Nov. 2023)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Sep. 2023)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (March 2023)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Dec. 2022)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Dec. 2022)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (April 2022)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Aug. 2021, Dec. 2021)
IEEE Communications Letters (July 2021, Oct. 2021, Nov. 2021)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (June 2020, Sep. 2020, Nov. 2020 (twice), Dez. 2020)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Mar. 2020, July 2020, Nov. 2020)
IET Electronics Letters (Sep. 2020 - a 2nd paper in Sep.)
IET Electronics Letters (Sep. 2020)
IET Electronics Letters (July 2020)
IET Electronics Letters (April 2020)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Set. 2019, Nov. 2019, Jan. 2020)
IEEE Communications Letters (Dec. 2019)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Aug. 2019, Dec. 2019)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Oct. 2019)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications (July 2019)
IET Electronics Letters (Apr. 2019)
Sensors (Jan. 2019, Mar. 2019, Apr. 2019)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Feb. 2019)
IET Electronics Letters (Nov. 2018)
Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier) (Nov. 2018)
IET Signal Processing (July 2018, Sep. 2018, Nov. 2018)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Dec. 2017)
IEEE Communications Letters (Nov. 2017)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Nov. 2017)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Oct. 2017)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Sep. 2017
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Sep. 2017)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (July 2017)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (June 2017)
Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier) (Apr. 2017)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Mar. 2017)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Dec. 2016)
IEEE Communications Letters (Nov. 2016)
Physical Communication, Elsevier (Nov. 2016)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Aug. 2016)
IEEE Communications Letters (Aug. 2016)
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (special issue on "Exploiting Interference towards Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications") (July 2016)
Physical Communication, Elsevier (July 2016)
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (special issue on "Exploiting Interference towards Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications") (June 2016)
IET Electronics Letters (May 2016)
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (special issue on "Exploiting Interference towards Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications") (Apr. 2016)
IEEE Communications Letters (Mar. 2016)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Feb. 2016)
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Feb. 2016)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Dec. 2015)
IEEE Communications Letters (Dec. 2015)
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Oct. 2015) (these 2 papers are different)
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Oct. 2015)
IEEE Communications Letters (Sep. 2015)
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Aug. 2015) (these 5 papers in August are all different)
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Aug. 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Aug. 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Aug. 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Aug. 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (July 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (May 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Apr. 2015)
IEEE Communications Letters (Dec. 2014, Jan. 2015)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Nov. 2014)
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (October 2014)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Aug. 2014)
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer (July 2014)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (Feb. 2014, Apr. 2014 twice)
IEEE Communications Letters (Dec. 2013, Mar. 2014, Apr. 2014)
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (Feb. 2014)
Elsevier Applied Soft Computing (Jan. 2014)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (August 2013)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Dec. 2012, Mar. 2013, June 2013, July 2013)
Future Internet, MDPI (Mar. 2013, June 2013, June 2013, July 2013)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (Jan. 2013, Apr. 2013)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Nov. 2012, Feb. 2013, Apr. 2013)
AEÜ International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier (Dec. 2012)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (Aug. 2012, Dec. 2012)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (July 2012)
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer (May 2012)
EURASIP Journal on Wireless communications and Networking (Jan. 2012, Apr. 2012)
International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley (Sep. 2011)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Aug. 2010, June 2011)
IEEE JSAC – IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications (Apr. 2009)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Nov. 2007, Feb. 2008)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (July 2007)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (June 2007)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Nov. 2006, Fev. 2007, Mar. 2007)
Wireless Personal Communications, Kluwer (Mar. 2005)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (June 2004)

Conference reviews

(Dates at the end are the dates of when the reviews were submitted)

MELECON 2023 – 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Porto, Portugal (2 papers) (March 2024)
GLOBECOM 2023 – IEEE Global Communications Conference (Quantum Communications and Computing track) (3 papers), Kuala Lumpur, Malasya (July 2023)
VTC Spring 2023 – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – Florence, Italy (Feb. 2023)
GLOBECOM 2022 – IEEE Global Communications Conference (Quantum Communications track) (2 papers), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 2022)
QCE 2022 – IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (3 papers) – Broomfield, Colorado, USA (June 2022)
IWCMC 2022 - Inter. Wireless Comm. & Mobile Computing Conf. (Emerging Tecnologies for 5G-Adv & 6G Workshop) – Dubrovnik, Croatia (March 2022)
VTC Spring 2022 – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (2 papers) – Helsinki, Finland (Feb. 2022) | reviewer's list
ICC 2022 – IEEE International Conf. on Communications (Quantum Communications and Computing track) (3 papers) – Seoul, South Korea (Jan. 2022).
ICC 2022 – IEEE International Conf. on Communications (Full-duplex Communications track) (2 papers) – Seoul, South Korea (Dec. 2021).
ISWCS 2021 – The 17^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems – Berlin, Germany (June 2021)
SPAWC 2021 - IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (3 papers) – Lucca, Italy (June 2021)
EuCNC 2021 - 30th European Conference on Networks and Communications | 6G Summit – Porto, Portugal, (Mar. 2021)
IWCMC 2021 - 17th Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (Communication and Signal Processing Symposium) – Harbin, China (Mar.2021)
ConfTele 2021 – 2021 Telecoms Conference – Leiria, Portugal (January 2021)
SBrT 2020 – Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações e Processamento de Sinais (2 papers + 4 delegated as TPC) – Florianópolis, Brazil (Aug. 2020)
GLOBECOM 2020 – IEEE Global Communications Conference – Taipei, Taiwan (July 2020)
PIMRC 2020 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio (2 papers) – London, UK (May 2020)
EuCNC 2020 - 29th European Conference on Networks and Communications (2 papers) – Dubrovnik, Croatia (April 2020)
IWCMC 2019 - 15th Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference – Limassol, Cyprus March 2020)
6G Wireless Summit – Levi, Lapland, Finland (Jan. 2020)
ACM International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing and Cloud Computing (2 papers) – Sanya, China (Aug. 2019)
ISWCS 2019 – The 16^th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (2 papers) – Oulu, Finland (June 2019).
IWCMC 2019 – 15th Inter. Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (3 papers) – Tangier, Morocco (Mar. 2019).
ISIT 2019 - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory – Paris, France (Mar. 2019).
PHOTOPTICS 2019 – 7th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, Prague, Czech Republic (Nov. 2018)
GLOBECOM 2018 – IEEE Global Communications Conference – Abu Dhabi, UAE (June 2018)
ISWCS 2018 – 15th Inter. Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems 2018 (6 papers) – Lisbon, Portugal (May 2018)
WCNC 2018 - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Barcelona, Spain (Dec. 2017)
PIMRC 2017 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio (3 papers + 4 delegated as TPC) – Montréal, Canada (July 2017)
IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 - IEEE Global Communications Conferencee, Singapore (May 2017)
ISCC 2017 – The 22^nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (2 papers + 2 delegated as TPC) – Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Mar. 2017)
IWCMC 2017 – Inter. Wireless Comm. & Mobile Computing Conf. (Communication and Sig. Proc. Symposium) – Valencia, Spain (Mar. 2017)
IEEE VTC 2017 Spring – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (2 papers) – Sydney, Australia (Dec. 2016 and Jan. 2017)
IEEE ICC 2017 – Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks, in the IEEE International Conf. on Communications– Paris 2017 (Dec. 2016)
IEEE ICC 2017 – IEEE International Conf. on Communications (3 papers + 2 delegated as TPC) – Paris, France 2017 (Dec. 2016)
ISWCS 2016 – 13th Inter. Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems – Poznań, Poland (June 2016).
IEEE SAM 2016 – The 9th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Apr. 2016)
NOC 2016 – 21st European Conference on Network and Optical Communications – Lisbon, Portugal (Apr. 2016)
IEEE ICC 2016 – IEEE Inter. Conf. on Communications (5 papers) – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Dec. 2015)
PIMRC 2015 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio 2015 (2 papers + 6 delegated papers as TPC) – Hong Kong, China (June 2015)
EUSIPCO 2015 – European Signal Processing Conference – Nice, France (May 2015)
SPAWC 2015 - IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (2 papers) – Stockholm, Sweden (Apr.2015)
IWCMC 2015 - Inter. Wireless Comm. & Mobile Computing Conf. (Communication and Sig. Proc. Symposium) – Dubrovnik, Croatia (Apr. 2015)
IEEE ICC 2015 – IEEE International Conf. on Communications (4 papers) – London 2015 (Nov. 2014)
IEEE ISSPIT 2014 – Inter. Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology (4 papers) – Noida, India (Oct. 2014)
ITS 2014 - Inter. Telecommunications Symposium (3 papers) – São Paulo, Brazil (June 2014)
IEEE PIMRC 2014 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio 2014 (5 papers) – Washington, DC, USA (May 2014)
EUSIPCO 2014 – European Signal Processing Conference (16 papers as special sessions organiser), Lisbon, Portugal (Apr. 2014)
European Wireless 2014 – Lisbon, Portugal (Mar. 2014)
ICT 2014 – Inter. Conf. on Telecommunications (3 papers) – Lisbon (Feb. 2014)
IEEE ISSPIT 2013 – Inter. Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology (4 papers) – Athens, Greece (Oct. 2013)
IEEE PIMRC 2013 – IEEE Inter. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio (6 papers) – London, UK (June 2013)
Future Network & Mobile Summit 2013 (3 papers) – Lisbon, Portugal (Mar. 2013)
IEEE WCNC 2013 – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference – Shanghai, China (Dec. 2012)
IEEE VTC 2013 Spring – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – Dresden, Germany (Nov. 2012)
IEEE ISIT 2012 – IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory – Boston, USA (Mar. 2012)
IEEE ISIT 2011 – IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory – Saint Petersburg, Russia (Apr. 2011)
IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 – IEEE Global Communications Conference, Houston, Texas, USA (Apr. 2011)
IEEE VTC 2010 Spring - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – Taipei, Taiwan (Dec. 2009)
IEEE WCNC 2009 – Wireless Communications and Networking Conference – Budapest (Nov. 2008)
IEEE VTC 2008 Fall – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – Calgary, Canada (Mar. 2008)
IEEE VTC 2008 Spring – IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – Singapore (Nov. 2007)
IEEE ICC 2006 – IEEE International Conf. on Communications - Istanbul 2006 (Oct. 2005)

PhD committees (theses viva examinations, and qualification committes)

Candidate António Simões, "Distributed estimation on time-varying networks: methods and tradeoffs for improved efficiency", Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, schedulled for June 2021. Supervisor: Prof. João Xavier (IST and ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics). Dr. Francisco Santos (DEI, IST / INESC-ID), and Dr. João Mota (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland).

Candidate Rasoul Nikbakht, "Unsupervised Learning for Parametric Optimization in Wireless Networks". Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona (ranked in the top positions in Spain, and in Europe). Via videoconference, 17^th March 2021. Supervisor: Prof. Angel Lozano. Other examination committee member: Dr. Luca Sanguinetti, University of Pisa, and Dr. Lorenza Giupponi, CTTC, Catalunya.

Candidate António Simões, "Distributed estimation on time-varying networks: methods and tradeoffs for improved efficiency", Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, 5^th February 2021. Member of the qualifying examination committee. Supervisor: Dr. João Xavier (IST and ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics).

Candidate Hadi Sarieddeen, "Large Multi-User MIMO Detection: Algorithms and Architectures", PhD examination committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUB - American University of Beirut, Lebanon (ranked 2^nd in the Arab world). Via videoconference, 29^th Mar. 2018. Other examination committee members from: Qualcomm Inc (San José, California), and AUB. Supervisor: Prof. M. Mansour.

Candidate Hadi Sarieddeen, "Large Multi-User MIMO Detection: Algorithms and Architectures", Member of the qualifying examination committee for the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUB - American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Via videoconference, 27^th April 2016. Supervisor: Prof. M. Mansour.

Candidate Mr Hugo Reboredo, "Compressive Classification: Analysis, Designs and Geometrical Interpretation", Doctoral Programme MAP-Tele, Dep. de Ciência de Computadores, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, PhD examination committee, 6^th November 2014. Supervisor: Prof. Miguel Rodrigues (now at University College Lodon, UK).

Candidate Miss Smrati Gupta, "Contributions on Networking Techniques for Wireless Relay Channels. PhD Programme in Telecommunications and Systems Engineering", Dep. of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Escola d'Enginyeria, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ranked in the top positions in Spain, and in Europe). PhD examination committee, 14^th July 2014. Other examination committee members from: Tempere University, Finland; KUL - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. Supervisor: Dr. M. A. Vázquez-Castro.

Projects Evaluation

Project application reviewer for EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom, comprising 1M£ funding, August 2018.

Prizes evaluation committees

IEEE (Portugal Section) Best PhD Thesis Award 2023 (Nov. 2023).
IEEE (Portugal Section) Outstanding MSc Thesis Award 2020 (Nov. 2020).

MSc thesis examination committees

Several examination committees at IST (University of Lisbon), at FCT (NOVA University of Lisbon), and at ISCTE-IUL.